{"id":36990,"date":"2022-02-15T15:16:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T02:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/?p=36990"},"modified":"2022-02-15T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T02:16:51","slug":"last-resident-of-fremantle-port-sells-cottage-after-five-decade-holdout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propertynoise.co.nz\/au\/last-resident-of-fremantle-port-sells-cottage-after-five-decade-holdout\/","title":{"rendered":"Last resident of Fremantle Port sells cottage after five-decade holdout"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOTO: Carmel Mullally<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Wedged between shipping containers, a train line and a busy road for freight, Carmel Mullally still loved her patch of paradise even as neighbours disappeared and the Fremantle Port expanded.<\/p>\n

The \u2018lady who lives in the port\u2019 had knocked back offers by the state government to buy her North Fremantle house since the 1960s and was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief her home would not be bulldozed in 2007 when the local council added the cottage to its heritage register.<\/p>\n

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The home Carmel Mullally refused to sell to the Fremantle Port for five decades has finally wound up in the hands of the authority.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Her home will not be flattened, but old age forced Mrs Mullally from the yellow weatherboard last year.<\/p>\n

And in a final twist her cottage was sold to Fremantle Ports, which had tried to get a hold of the property after the area, once made up of rows of similar cottages where Mrs Mullally\u2019s father had also grown up and a deli, was rezoned in 1963 to port use.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Fremantle Ports first offered $5800 for Mrs Mullally to move in 1967 before upping its proposed payout to $10,000.<\/p>\n

Mrs Mullally simply would not sell and painted slogans on the outside walls of her home asking people to \u2018help save me from the port authority\u2019.<\/p>\n

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Carmel Mullally\u2019s home in 1993.<\/span>CREDIT:<\/span>FREMANTLE HISTORY CENTRE<\/cite><\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another offer from the government for $105,000 was rejected by Mrs Mullally in the 1990s as she did not see a good reason why she should have to sell and thought she could put her 324-square-metre property to better use than the ports.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe whole affair has been like a Shakespeare play,\u201d she told\u00a0Fremantle Focus<\/em>\u00a0in 1990.<\/p>\n

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